Florida Man

A Pulp Weird Fiction Novel

By: Samuel Brower

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Drugs. Delusions. Or the biggest mystery in Florida since the will-o’-the-wisp?

Meet Barry Babcock: swamp-dwelling, self-medicated, unemployed—and now infamous. After a death-defying stunt lands him in a psychiatric ward, Barry swears the real reason he’s locked up isn’t booze or bad decisions. It’s the frog people.

According to Barry, deep in central Florida’s swamps lives a secret race of amphibious cryptids—ancient, bizarre, and very real. His story spirals from alligator dodging and backwoods chaos into conspiracy, cryptids, and the kind of madness only Florida could cook up.

Is Barry just another drugged-out lunatic? A misunderstood prophet? Or has he really uncovered one of the state’s darkest, strangest secrets?

Florida Man is a riotous blend of satire, weird horror, and mind-melting absurdity—a fever dream of cryptids, conspiracies, and the eternal question: is Florida naturally this weird, or is something else pulling the strings?

Welcome to Florida. You won’t believe what we've got in store for you.

Genre defying. Good story

Lighter tone for much of the story than what I generally expect from work labeled weird fiction. Though I have to admit I don’t know of a better category. The pacing and characters are well executed. Virtual Voice is occasionally distracting

Weird Florida story

I was expecting a weird Florida story, but this was weirder than I anticipated. The story was worth my time but the AI Narration was like nails on a chalkboard!

No variety in plot line. Same thing for hours.

I kept hoping it would evolve.
Never did.
Then it just ended with an anti-climatic period.
It was only when the ‘credits’ started being said, that I realized, that that was the end.
I’m fine with endings that don’t have everyone holding hands and skipping off into the sunset, but this was just stupid and unfulfilling.
It was as if someone knocked on the authors door and told him it was time to leave…so, he just decided to end the book then and there.
I’m upset I paid anything for this.